Stormy Friday (12/10)

[GloriaSmud]

Friday could be a stormy day for western areas. Current warnings issued by the metoffice and Netweather mention it here.
Perhaps one to watch.

[GloriaSmud]

hoochymama ~
I only saw briefly what the DM were going on about yesterday but I think from what I saw, most of it was actually right! It's looking at bit more autumnal but 'nice' autumn (decent sunny days) rather than not-so-nice autumn (wind, rain, gales.) It could be chilly at night though and frosts could occur for the north/Scotland. So not bad really!

[hoochymama1]

Good to hear @GloriaSmud. We musn't have you floating away just as the bad weather is about to begin
So...cold weather thread, OYBBK and Gloria??? Are the DM just talking piffle about next week?

[GloriaSmud]

Aw thanks for asking, hoochymama. Was wet at the start of the journey, dry in the middle and cloudy/warm and windy at the end. It's now raining and looking rather wet overnight and into tomorrow morning.
Just seen on the BBC website about the flooding in South Wales Looks like the metoffice were right with their Amber warning.

[hoochymama1]

Huh South Wales, stupid phone.

[hoochymama1]

How did you get on, Gloria?
Dried two loads of washing outside today, it felt like a tumble dryer Sotheby's wales and the West Country have had it bad. Good to see your ok OYBBK.

[brizzledrizzle]

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

I'm here :) hoping to have more mental space for weather stuff soon.

[brizzledrizzle]

Not about the weather but it's odd having a weather thread without OYBBK - has she name changed? Hope she's OK.

[Ginfox]

Well it was windy all afternoon and very windy and noisy until about 2am. But nothing unusual for here. I'm guessing it got to around 60mph, but waiting for our local weather geek to put the stats on Facebook.
Mainland has definitely had the worst of it.

[GloriaSmud]

Will do, hoochymama.
Report on the BBC website here ~ the footage of Exmouth is

[hoochymama1]

Take care tomorrow Gloria. Hmm the fences here are bending in a worrying way. But I just took the dog out so it's not that bad

[brizzledrizzle]

Watching and (trying not to be) worried - my DD is driving back down here at the moment and she's not experienced at driving in bad weather.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

www.xcweather.co.uk

is good for looking at peak wind gusts so far.

[GloriaSmud]

Some thoughts from TheWeatherOutlook and Netweather.

[GloriaSmud]

Glad to be of service was beginning to get a bit lonely, talking to myself!

'Tis rather dark and blowy here (Leicester) It's also the start of half term today and we're spending next week near Exmouth. Looks like we're in for a fun journey tomorrow

[HalfStar]

Sounds rather lovely Gin!

Stormy here in Ireland but not that bad. Much less damage around than storm Ali. People were more prepared also.

[hoochymama1]

Thanks for the updates Gloria, a wild and windy West Yorkshire here

[Ginfox]

Far north Western Isles here. Met office forecast is for Storm 10 later today in The Minch. Currently reading 22mph winds at Stornoway airport, but feels stronger up here.

All battery lights checked, fire laid, jigsaws and board games ready, for the inevitable power cut later. First day of half term so we can stay home and get cosy.

However if we have power I will let you know how we get on. Good luck everyone!🌊

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

well done Gloria!

Life is finally starting to calm down so I can start weather watching again soon :)

[GloriaSmud]

Updated warnings ~ yellow warning extended southwards to cover western coasts/Irish sea and an Amber rain warning for South Wales, from 6am tomorrow morning until 6pm Saturday.

[GloriaSmud]

Netweather's thoughts on it.

[GloriaSmud]

I'm not surprised at that, HalfStar, it looks like the Irish coasts are going to get the full force of it all from early Friday.

[HalfStar]

Updated to orange warning in many parts of Ireland.

[GloriaSmud]

Updated warnings for Friday and Saturday.

HalfStar ~ warnings for Ireland.

[HalfStar]

Sure does. Thanks for keeping an eye on it Gloria.